Juniata sentinel and Republican. [volume] (Mifflintown, Juniata County, Pa.) 1873-1955, 1887-05-18
NEWS IN BRIEF.

The United States colleges co! tain
10, coo female students.
There are in the United States
l5, ,2l0, 14l church members.
New England in 1912 conts med
but fifty towns and villages.
The first printing press in North
America was set up at Cambridge.
"A car load of ostriches from Africa
arrived at Los Angeles the other day.
Oliver Optic has published 113
volumes. His first book appeared in
1853.
Nathaniel Bowditcn, the eminent
mathematician, vas eOoper's appren-
tice.
William Sturgeon, the able and
famous electrician, rose from cobblsr's
bench.
Los Angeles County, California, is
larger than Rhode Island and Delaware
combined.
The Yale law school is the only
one in the country that has q four
years. course.
Twelve thousand people followed
the body of Robert Burns to its resting
place in the grave.
George NJ. Pullman, of palace car
fame, has been knighted by the King
of Italy, it is stated.
There are said to be more beggars
In Birmingham, Alabama, than in any
other city in the South.
In one week recently 20 600 quarts
Of Strawberries were shipped north
from Jacksonville, Florida.
In the Spring of 1776 New York
was supplied with water conveyed
through pipes in the streets.
Ninety per cent. of the travellers
to eastern points from Butte, N. T.,
purchase second class tickets.
-BuffOn's 'Studies of NATURE cost
him fifty years Of writing and rewriting
before the work was published.
1t is quite the fashionable thing
now TO run down from Washington t3
Cd Point Comfort for a few days.
The first public library in Penn
sylvania was instituted through the
exertions of Benjamin Franklin in
1742.
-Correra, afterward president of
Guatemala, was born In poverty, and
for years was a drummer boy in the
army.
In England at the time of King
Edward, 1927, there were three written
languages in use, Latin, French and
English.
"A resident of Eatonton, Georgia,
has prepared and furnished large and
costly cyclone pit near the back do,r Of
his residence.
The Oldest library in the world Is
that of kwotOZo-Kien which was es-
tablished during the CHOW dynasty in
China (B. G. 1l22).
The Hawaiian government has
just annexed Ocean Island, whica Is
! described as q sand-bank 1,200 miles
I from the Hawaiian group.
The Mexican army, when on a war
footing, has 1896 men, divided as
follows: Infantry, 49, ,522; cavalry,
2, $50, and artillery, $500.
"A diamond OF good quality and un-
usual size has been found at Ponca,
q
was sinking shaft for coal.
The latest adyices from the volcano
of Hauna LOa are that the TOW of lava
which was recently upheaved from that
mld-Oceau furnace had ceased.
The river Thames is said to have
ebbed and flowed in a very decided
manner three times in one hour and a
quarter one morning recently.
"A resident Of Strahaye, Penna,
possesses a set Of double teeth with
which he can bite a nail in two, crack
a walnut and lift keg of beer.
Bulls for fighting purposes are
worth from 500 to 500 now IN Mexico,
an increase of nearly double. On sc-
count of the rage for ball lighting.
-George Jeffers, 4 Merced County.
(Cal.) farmer, Iecame despondent over
the prospect OF dry season and hanged
The next day the rains began.
The water used in the White
House for drinking purposes is con-
Veyei to the mansion by pipes from a
spring IN Fraklin park, several squares
Instant.
The Bachelors Club of Phlladel.
)hia asks all men to resign when they
narry, except those who take widows
ior life companions. These do ez-
lelled.
The Chinese are said to manufac-
.ure an anaesthetic not unlike cocaine
n its action, and claim that the anaes-
.hetic property is the juice of the eye
IF the frog.
Manuel Barriant and his wife
Maria have celebrated the eightieth
Of their marriage at Mata-
moras, Mexico. The husband is 1O2
and the wife %.
"A Virginia justice of the peace has
lined fisherman seven dollars for con-
tending In open court that the moon
mad any thing to do with the ebb and
low OF the tides.
The cave animals Of North Amer
ca, according to Professor 4. g.
Packard, comprise total Of 172
species of blind creatures, nearly all OF
which are mostly white in color.
"A bald eagle killed recently near
Santa Rosa, California, measured
seventy eight inches from tip to tip of
lis wings. dIu us IaiOUS, Wien
opened, measured seven and a quarter
inches.
"A Lake Michigan captain says that
. long course OF observation has con-
Iinced him that vessels named after
are remarkably unlucky, as
with those bearing the names
II men.
"A Senator in the New Jersey Lee
Stature In opposing a marriage Il
;ense bill for that State, said the other
lay in debate that if the bill passed
Camden clergymen would lose S10,0 600
|. year, as they had united 200 Phila-
ielphians during the past twelve
"A studyof pension statistics moves
he Washington Post to assure its
emale readers that the most healthy